``I would like to get started on March the twelfth``
Ralf Schumacher would like to win the first grand prix of season `06.
For a private team test, the German was at Vallelunga (Italy) this week, where teammate Jarno Trulli lapped more than half a second per lap quicker than him.
However, although the track deficit failed to make him smile in 2005, Ralf will have been pleased -- JT was at the wheel of Toyota`s Bahrain-spec aero package, while 30-year-old Schumacher steered the older `winter` version.

"It is still a little early to be making statements about winning races," Schumacher told the Euro Sport Automagazine.

Ralf said: "So, what I`m saying is not really a prediction. However: I believe we can win this year -- and I would like to get started on March the twelfth."

Toyota`s private run in chilly Italy has been a rather secretive affair. Any comparisons with other teams` tests at the circuit are meaningless, because the Cologne squad installed a new chicane at the end of the straight.

The race-ready TF106 will, however, make its group appearance next week, at Barcelona in Spain.

"Then we will start to find out where we really stand,"

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